On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 08:31 PM, Mike Gill wrote:
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> I also look forward to having more papers on the mining industries in
> other
> countries and getting away from the parochial approaches which sometimes
> bedevil mining history.
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Mike,
What is your definition of 'parochial' and, indeed, 'sometimes' here?
Surely, without the 'parochial' base of so much mining history
studies/research (however so defined) there would be little or nothing
on which to base comparative international mining history?
"From little acorns........", comes to mind here!
Peter Challis
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